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Snow & Sled and New Year’s Resolutions

Snow & Sled and New Year’s Resolutions

by MarianBeaman | Jan 5, 2022 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Quotations

  Photos re-create family history like nothing else can do. Before the Henry R. Longenecker family built their home near Rheems, Pennsylvania, they lived in a small house on the corner across from Bossler Mennonite Church. In the winter of 1922, someone (perhaps...
Ducks Splash Down, Inspire Haiku and More

Ducks Splash Down, Inspire Haiku and More

by MarianBeaman | Nov 10, 2021 | blog, Literature, meditation, neighborhood, Neighborhood / Environment, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

  Saturday Morning   Ducks land hard on lake A chorus of feathered brown White bubbles remain ~  October 8, 2021     Stalky chalk-white bird Balancing on two brown legs Constantly startled                                                 ~  January...
Crying: A Slice of Time

Crying: A Slice of Time

by MarianBeaman | Sep 22, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, meditation, Uncategorized

Crying: A Slice of TIme I’ve been wanting to cry for days now. Not because of anything specific, just general malaise from following the prickly path of my life as a writer: feeling stuck in my next project, seeing just a trickle of monetary results from my first...
Mary: Face to Face with a Memoir Character

Mary: Face to Face with a Memoir Character

by MarianBeaman | Aug 25, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Gratitude, meditation, Memory, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Reflection, Travel, Uncategorized

When I was a plain, ten-year-old girl, I wanted to looked like Mary. My big brown eyes turned green with envy when Mary Martin and her sister Evelyn walked through the door at Grandma Fannie’s house for holiday dinners. Both were elegantly turned out, resplendent in...
Who’s in the Mirror?

Who’s in the Mirror?

by MarianBeaman | Jun 23, 2021 | blog, Education, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Nostalgia, Quotations, Uncategorized

When you pass a mirror, do you deliberately walk on by, or do you make a point to look into it? The Evil Queen in the tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” stared with vengeful intent into a mirror and chanted, “Mirror, mirror on the wall/Who is the fairest of them...
The One-armed Piano Maestro: A Memorial Day Tribute

The One-armed Piano Maestro: A Memorial Day Tribute

by MarianBeaman | May 26, 2021 | blog, meditation, popular culture, Quotations, Uncategorized

A Memorial Day Tribute   When I play Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto, my goal is to make it sound like I have THREE hands, so says pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.   The Back Story Pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm because of a bullet wound in WW I,...
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